Too young to die…

Too young to die…

I was deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Mark Hanson, a highly regarded PR professional and deputy managing director of Wolfstar Consultancy. We had exchanged emails recently as Mark had won a competition on my blog for a ticket to a social media event in...
The Peter Bingle factor

The Peter Bingle factor

I enjoyed reading Peter Bingle’s account of the steps he takes to win new public affairs clients, from visits to the opera and theatre to knowing the right restaurants and wines. It’s clearly his personal touch which has won him the contracts he bid for,...
The dangers of a one man brand

The dangers of a one man brand

I am a huge Apple fan and desperately sad to learn that its CEO Steve Jobs is unwell again and being treated for neuroendocrine cancer. He has been widely credited with transforming Apple from a failing company in the 1990s to the very desirable and hugely successful...

The Soil Association and Carter-Ruck

Receiving a letter threatening libel from Carter-Ruck is fairly certain to send shivers down your spine. They are said to have sent such a letter to the Soil Association, the organic farmers’ group, after it objected to a planning application from its client to...

Should web links be free?

I’ve been following the latest  saga regarding paying The Newspaper Licensing Agency for sharing web links. Francis Ingham, Chief Executive of the Public Relations Consultants Association, explains via a video interview why they are appealing to the Court of...
From Journalism to PR

From Journalism to PR

There’s an interesting article in the latest PR Week about increasing numbers of journalists switching to PR as newspapers close up and down the country and they succumb to the temptation to earn much more money from leading agencies. When I first made this...